Dogman Narratives writes “During a visit to his grandparents home in Bluff, Utah. A young man witnesses a strange creature that is described as a Skinwalker. A strange looking dog has been visiting his grandparents for the past few nights. Could it have been a skinwalker… or just a neighbor?
In Navajo culture, a skin-walker is a type of harmful witch who has the ability to turn into, possess, or disguise themselves as an animal. The term is not used for healers.
According to the Navajo skinwalker legend are typically seen in the form of a coyote, owl, fox, wolf or crow. Although they do have the ability to turn into other animals.
In order to become a Skinwalker, he or she must be initiated by a secret society which requires the most evil of deeds – the killing of a close family member, most often a sibling.
Skinwalkers are very similar to a Wendigo in the Algonquin culture.”
Peter B
Being a native myself I do enjoy the skinwalker stories… It was about 11:35p.m. and Johnny Carson was over. I decided to sleep on the couch below the side window mounted swamp cooler. It was summer and about 1976’ish, yeah, yeah,yeah. I was 10 years old, turning out the lamp I laid down. It was about 10 minutes later when I heard someone opening the side of the cooler where the pads are. I froze, I could not move, or even speak. I made myself slide off the couch and belly crawled in the dark. Getting to my parents room I woke up my dad, telling him what’s going on. Being a man of the Korean War and seeing combat as an infantry man. He got up and we went outside. The cooler was okay nothing or know one around. Just the sound of my aunt’s sheepdogs barking at the corral. Which was about 300 yards away.
As a young boy I started to hear stories of skinwalker people. As you get older the stories become more telling with details. My dad had a buddy named Rudy he was hired by my dad’s employer to do night security. After a few weeks of work he told my dad that him and a bear skinwalker would do the hide and seek thing. He would patrol on foot and see it. Sometimes he would act like he didn’t see it and go hide somewhere. Then it would look for him and vice versa. Being a young kid you just listen to the stories and don’t interrupt…..